Illinois mayor blasts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ‘hypocrisy’ after migrants shipped to ‘Republican suburb’

The Republican mayor of a suburban Chicago city is asking out Windy Metropolis Mayor Lori Lightfoot after over 60 migrants have been shipped to his city and dropped off at an area lodge.

After being bussed from Texas, 147 migrants arrived in Chicago on Wednesday, in keeping with FOX 32. Sixty-four of these migrants have been then taken to a Hampton Inn lodge in Burr Ridge, which is outdoors of Chicago, the place they are going to be for not less than the following 27 days.

Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, a Republican, instructed Fox Information that the migrants are getting used as “political pawns” by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker.

“As is my understanding, this lodge, a few yr in the past, when refugees got here in from Afghanistan, apparently accepted a number of both by means of faith-based or charitable organizations, however now the state assumes they’ll simply ship migrants… this isn’t about them, the migrants is okay, they’re getting used as political pawns by the governor and mayor,” Grasso stated.

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Grasso additionally stated it is hypocritical for Lightfoot to be complaining about Texas Governor Greg Abbott sending migrants to Chicago, then turning round and “sending [the migrants] out to the” suburbs.

“We’re more than pleased for individuals to search out freedom, it’s hypocrisy by the mayor of Chicago to complain concerning the governor of Texas – I do agree with what he’s doing – the town of Chicago says it’s going to be a sanctuary metropolis which I oppose – however there have to be vacant lodge rooms in Chicago. That is lots of of individuals in a metropolis of thousands and thousands. Why are they sending them out to the Republican suburbs? You need to surprise,” Grasso stated.

He stated that simply because the precise Hampton Inn was used to beforehand home refugees from Afghanistan “doesn’t give carte blanche to the governor or the mayor to ship a few bus a great deal of migrants to our village with out telling us.”

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The migrants who have been taken to Burr Ridge will keep at a Hampton Inn for not less than 30 days.
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“The border state of affairs on the southern border is a completely totally different state of affairs than Afghan refugees. It’s complete conceitedness for the state to imagine they’ll ship migrants to the suburbs round Chicago,” Grasso stated.

A spokesperson for the village of Burr Ridge instructed NBC5 that the migrants have been initially on the Salvation Military Defend of Hope in Chicago, then transported to the Hampton Inn.

Based on the report, an announcement from the Illinois Division of Human Companies reads that the migrants are “receiving short-term shelter in city and suburban inns which have supplied refuge for susceptible households from Afghanistan and different elements of the world. We’re grateful for the hospitality and care they’ve obtained from people and organizations throughout Illinois.”

“We are going to proceed taking motion to make sure everybody in Illinois has entry to shelter, meals, healthcare, and different fundamental, important helps,” reads the assertion. “We anticipate that the State of Texas will proceed to bus migrants to Illinois, and we stay dedicated to serving to welcome new arrivals in a accountable, orderly and compassionate method.”

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a Metropolis Council assembly on July 20, 2022/Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on the Republican Social gathering of Texas State Conference on the Kay Bailey Hutchison Conference Middle in Dallas, Texas. 
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Lightfoot has criticized Abbott a number of instances and has stated that he lacks “any morals, humanity or disgrace.”

“Let me say loud and clear to Greg Abbott and his enablers in Texas with these continued political stunts, Gov. Abbott has confirmed what sadly many people had identified already, that he’s a person with none morals, humanity or disgrace,” Lightfoot stated throughout a Sept. 1 press convention.